James Ward and I will be in Bangalore, India, later this month, and will both be presenting at the Adobe RIA Architect Summit 2008 , a free full day event dedicated to Flex, AIR, Data Services, ColdFusion, and more. Registration is now open .
Kurt Bonnet wrote to tell me that two tools from Atlassian , Crucible (used for code review), and FishEye (used for source code repository analysis), now support CFML (as of version 1.3.5 ).
I've managed to get quoted in two InfoWorld stories in as many days, in Silverlight's link to Microsoft developer skills touted I was asked about Flex and the skills needed to leverage it versus those needed by Silverlight, and in Adobe ColdFusion warming to 64-bit OSes we chatted about the...
I am in London for the very first CFUnited Europe where I am presenting an opening keynote. I am looking forward to seeing whether the event does as well here as it does back in the U.S. See you there!
Building on the success of last year's FlexManiacs, the new WebManiacs is 3 events in one - CFManiacs, FlexManiacs, and AIRManiacs. Over 50 speakers, more than 200 sessions, hands-on sessions, and much more, May 19-23 2008 in Washington, D.C. And early-bird discounted pricing closes on March 14th,...
19 year old Matt Wegrzyn of Bodis.com is one of of a group of the next generation of entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovators highlighted in an ABC News story entitled 10 Overachievers Under 21 . Matt has been writing code for a while apparently. As reported in the story, he "mastered the...
If you are a LinkedIn user, and are a proud ColdFusion and/or Flex developer, then feel free to join these groups. You'll have these cool logos on your profile page, and will show up in group searches too. ColdFusion Developers Group Flex Developers Group Credit goes to James Wolfe for getting this...
Dr. Dobb's has announced the winners of the 18th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards, and ColdFusion 8 won in the Web Development category! Yeah! Other Adobe winners are Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (Productivity Winner in Enterprise Tools category), Adobe Device Central CS3...
The folks over at Daemon have announced that they are trying to get FarCry into the Google Summer of Code program. If they succeed, this will be a great opportunity for students to build cool apps and maybe walk away with ca$h, too.
FusionReactor 3 has been released, with the ability to monitor ColdFusion 6, 7, and 8, as well as LiveCycle Data Services, and more. Check out the new features , including the AIR client.